Comments on: Huckabee On Evolution

By: the real cmf

the real cmf — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:11:39 +0000

Huckabee is not unclear at all in his position: “Should we teach that some people believe it, some don’t? I think that’s academic freedom.”That is coded speech for ” Teach the Controversy”, i.e teach “both sides” as if religion is a side.

By: greg laden

greg laden — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 07:06:47 +0000

sig: I think you are exactly right.

By: anonymousat2:11

anonymousat2:11 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:12:17 +0000

You can fiddle while your country burns?????

By: mark

mark — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:41:04 +0000

It’s just one more concept that Huckleberry is unclear on. I guess music and arts are important in education, but not science.

By: Anon

Anon — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:13:57 +0000

Followup question:"So, Governor, should we consider your position pandering, or ignorance?Do you feel the same way about geocentrism? Flat earth?

By: Sigmund

Sigmund — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:03:06 +0000

Looking in as a total ousider (secular humanist Irish cancer researcher in Sweden) I get the impression that the real danger to US science from Huckabee is not an active plan to implement the wedge strategy but rather indirect consequences of continuing to have a right wing religious figure in charge. For instance the US supreme court is rather finely balanced at the moment and another Scalia-like appointment may result in decisions that seriously erode your separation of church and state policy.

By: Ken Shabby

Ken Shabby — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:29:30 +0000

Should we teach arithmetic as a doctrine? Spelling as a doctrine?Shouldn’t there be equal time for the alternatives — innumeracy and illiteracy?